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days before republicans assume the majority in the house and likely dissolve the january 6th committee, members released a new batch of testimony involving efforts of those closest to the former president and their attempts to overturn the election. i m pamela brown in for anderson tonight. and included in the new transcripts is testimony by donald trump jr. and remarks about what he believed was a, quote, sophisticated legal rationale to overturn the election, as in overturn the will of the people. one nearly identical to what his fathers allies would soon attempt. and there is also some rather unflattering testimony involving first lady melania trump s opinion of trump jr. and others in her husband s inner circle. also tonight, new details of a purported conversation involving senator lindsey graham who said he would become a champion of these baseless election fraud claims if the president s allies could, quote, just give me five dead voters. it is a lot to unpack. l ....
and the world remember the queen. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room as cnn s special live coverage continues. we begin with charles iii s debut as king. the new monarch facing a moment he acknowledges he s been dreading, the death of his mother, queen elizabeth. cnn s bianca nobilo is outside st. paul s cathedral where a service for the queen was held today. bianca, this has been a very, very emotional day for the british people and their new king. it has, wolf. i ve been speaking to those who attended this service. 2,000 members of the public, first come, first serve were given wristbands this morning, and they were coming from all over the world. these were people from australia, cuba, italy that i spoke to. they were going past the tourism office where they were giving out tickets to this remembrance service and service of thanksgiving. and they just happened to be in the right place and t ....
Dead voters. it is a lot to unpack. let s start with sara murray, who has been digging through these transcripts all week for us. sara, what more can you tell us about the new details from donald trump jr. s testimony to the committee? pam, this is interesting because we have of course previously reported on the mark meadows text, the former trump white house chief of staff who was so important to this investigation. and donald trump s testimony really digs into those. we previously reported that donald trump jr. had sent a text to mark meadows essentially laying out a way to keep donald trump in power, keep him in the white house. it was very similar to the strategy that his allies actually put forward, as you said. so the committee is asking donald trump jr. essentially why did you send this text. this is what he says. he says perhaps in reading it, it was the most sophisticated and detailed again about things i don t necessarily know too much about. but it sounded plausible. and i ....
Very beginning, it s causing just the opposite reaction in terms of the resilience of the ukrainian population and standing up to this. you re seeing you re seeing an old lady in the film that ben wedeman just showed talking about her home that has been attacked. these are not military targets. there are no military targets around here. and yet it s attempting to affect the ukrainian people. and it s failing miserably, because as the man with the cigarette was saying, i ve seen this before, and it s just the horror of the way the russians conduct warfare. how much do you think all the weaponry that the u.s. has given to ukraine helped in this situation in terms of it not being as bad as it could have? because we know the u.s. has given over the patriot defense system. but my understanding is it will be a while until they re trained up and can actually use them. so tell us about your perspective on that. the patriot won t be up and operational for monday. pam lap. even president z ....